NIS and linux
John Reynolds
jreyn at us.ibm.com
Wed Aug 25 20:31:54 UTC 2004
>Ok.. How do you "update" NIS?
>
>Ypmake doesn't exist, google isn't helping, and the man pages flat out
>such in this particular subject. Ypinit appears to only be used for
>initial NIS Server creation.
>:annoyed:
Look in /var/yp for a Makefile; it should be set to check for updates to
/etc/hosts,, /etc/passwd, etc., then generate the NIS maps and push them.
I usually alias 'ypmake' to 'cd /var/yp; make'.
John Reynolds
IBMi-by-the-Bay
San Francisco CA
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